Jenova
Wise Old Thumper
Have pet rabbits been bred so much and so badly that a large percentage of them have awful health issues? It seems like a 50/50 lucky did whether you'll get an ill rabbit or a healthy one?
I was having a long talk and I also think that in the wild, if a rabbit gets ill they usually get picked off by predators or die. They're a prey species so they have lots of babies and if one or two die then to the species as a whole it's not much of a loss. So they're not designed to get better from illnesses. :? It just seems so hard to nurse them back to health.
Predator animals seem much easier to deal with when they're ill. They do get problems like arthritis and bad hips in Labrador dogs, or diabetes, epilepsy or kidney issues. But rabbits get all these issues and more, like gut stasis, malocclusion, blocked tear ducts, snuffles... I've had a chinchilla with stasis and one has malocclusion, so I'm not saying it's just rabbits, but they just seem fundamentally broken as pets. :?
I love them and since I was five years old I've always loved them and wanted them in my life. I begged for six years and got my first rabbit when I was 11 and I've had them ever since. It just makes me so sad to think about all the issues they seem to get that other animals don't. Abscesses are harder to heal, it's serious if they don't eat for a day, there's just so much.
What do you think? Do you agree? If you do, do you think it's bad breeding or because they're prey animals? I think other animals suffer from over breeding, like rats for example.
I was having a long talk and I also think that in the wild, if a rabbit gets ill they usually get picked off by predators or die. They're a prey species so they have lots of babies and if one or two die then to the species as a whole it's not much of a loss. So they're not designed to get better from illnesses. :? It just seems so hard to nurse them back to health.
Predator animals seem much easier to deal with when they're ill. They do get problems like arthritis and bad hips in Labrador dogs, or diabetes, epilepsy or kidney issues. But rabbits get all these issues and more, like gut stasis, malocclusion, blocked tear ducts, snuffles... I've had a chinchilla with stasis and one has malocclusion, so I'm not saying it's just rabbits, but they just seem fundamentally broken as pets. :?
I love them and since I was five years old I've always loved them and wanted them in my life. I begged for six years and got my first rabbit when I was 11 and I've had them ever since. It just makes me so sad to think about all the issues they seem to get that other animals don't. Abscesses are harder to heal, it's serious if they don't eat for a day, there's just so much.
What do you think? Do you agree? If you do, do you think it's bad breeding or because they're prey animals? I think other animals suffer from over breeding, like rats for example.